The servant brought her into the house. He left her in the kitchen while he went to tell the prince .she is a princess , she says,he said."we'll soon see about that ! "thought the prince's old mother . She said nothing, but she went to the bedroom and she took everything off the bed .Then on the bottom of it she put a small,hard pea .Then she took twenty mattresses, soft and thick ,and she put them on top of the pea.